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A longtime aide to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has joined Democrat James Talarico’s Senate campaign as he tries to defeat Republican nominee Ken Paxton in Texas. Jacob Smith, who spent five years working for Cornyn as a deputy legislative director and policy adviser, is now serving as Talarico’s deputy policy director, according to NOTUS. “I’ve worked for Republicans like Senator Cornyn my entire career, but this year I’m proud to be joining James Talarico’s campaign,” Smith said in a statement released by the campaign. Smith said Talarico focuses on issues affecting working Texans rather than partisan politics and argued the…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent delivers White House Press Briefing – May 28, 2026 Ryan Michael “Reily” English, a transgender defendant convicted of crimes connected to an attempted assassination of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, has been sentenced to six years in federal prison. The sentencing comes after English pleaded guilty in March 2026. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said following the plea, “Our system of justice depends on public officials being able to carry out their duties free from intimidation and fear.” “This defendant’s threats crossed a clear legal line, and today’s guilty plea reflects our commitment to protecting those who serve.…

Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office revealed that they are not investigating the son of former Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) over illegal fuel trade. The announcement came soon after the politician himself revealed that the U.S. Department of State had revoked his visa for unknown reasons. On Monday afternoon, the FGR released a short statement claiming that there was no evidence or “protected witnesses” linking Andrés Manuel López Beltrán to the illegal fuel trade and that he was not under investigation. The statement claimed that news articles citing an FGR investigation and statements from protected witnesses were false. The…

A capital-spending boom is boosting American manufacturing, with production of business equipment accelerating this year and strength spreading beyond computers into machinery, electrical equipment, fabricated metals and aerospace. Output of business equipment rose 0.8 percent in July and was 6.6 percent higher than a year earlier, Federal Reserve data showed Tuesday. Production grew at a 12.7 percent annual rate in the second quarter after advancing at a 7.6 percent pace in the first three months of the year. The gains helped manufacturing output rise 0.2 percent in July despite a decline in motor vehicle production. Factory output excluding vehicles and…

Monday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) said we are in “banana republic territory” with the national bank regulator’s preliminary approval for the Trump family’s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, to secure a bank charter. Host Jen Psaki said, “So nothing should be surprising anymore in terms of the depths of corruption with this president. But I just wonder, as you learned about what I just outlined and what had happened on Friday, that the president’s own government gave him the approval he needed to start his own bank, essentially to benefit his own crypto business. You’ve talked about corruption…

Penn State inductees into the campus society were made to cut and package drugs as part of their initiation, prosecutors have alleged A US grand jury has indicted 14 people for allegedly operating a drug ring inside two fraternities at Pennsylvania State University (PSU), where pledges were allegedly forced to cut and package cocaine as part of their initiation.According to Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday, 13 of the defendants were students in 2023 and 2024, when the crimes allegedly occurred. The remaining defendant is the father of a student and is charged with tampering with evidence and hindering the investigation.…

Politics is pervading every aspect of our experience of life on this planet. Our only volition is in what we choose to do about this inescapable reality. Reading by Tim Foley: Saying “I’m not into politics” is just saying “I support status quo politics.” It’s saying you endorse all the violence, exploitation, ecocide and abuse of the current order. Politics are always happening all around you in every moment of every day, whether you are “into” it or not. Everything you do in your everyday life is pervasively shaped by local and national laws, by economic systems, by oligarchy, by…

A 24-year-old South Carolina police officer has been fired after department officials discovered she allegedly used the agency’s Flock camera system to run a former romantic partner’s license plate 166 times, according to documents. The New York Post reports that Ellie Anna Hammond was terminated from the Mauldin Police Department this month after the misuse of the AI-powered license plate reader system came to light. Documents from the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy show that Hammond searched the plate of her ex-boyfriend on 166 separate occasions between March and July. The documents also indicate that she provided her superiors with false…

Brussels has claimed that Meta and TikTok have voluntarily agreed to ramp up censorship efforts in the wake of the Ceuta migrant invasion last month. The European Commission said last week that following talks with the two American tech giants, held under the ever-present threat of hefty fines from the bloc, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok said that they would take it upon themselves to ramp up measures to stem the spread of so-called disinformation surrounding the storming of Spain’s Ceuta territory by over 72,000 illegals from Morocco within just a day. Footage of the thousands of mostly young males clambering…

Trade industry sources said on Tuesday that Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia, has resumed loading tankers with product at its Juaymah and Ras Tanura oil terminals, which lie within the contested waters of the Strait of Hormuz. The move suggests Aramco believes it will be able to ship its products through the Strait of Hormuz, either in coordination with Iran, or in defiance of Iran’s terrorist threats. The Saudis might even see Hormuz as safer than the alternative route through the Red Sea they have been using, as Iran’s regional proxy, the Houthi insurgents of Yemen,…